The Rpb4 subunit of fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe RNA polymerase II is essential for cell viability and similar in structure to the corresponding subunits of higher eukaryotes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 7511-7518

  Sakurai, Hitomi ^a,b   Mitsuzawa, Hiroshi ^a   Kimura, Makoto ^a   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032744686     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.11.7511     Document Type: Article

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